diff --git a/libxml2-python/.md5sum b/libxml2-python/.md5sum
index ae1e12dfe..1d6efb298 100644
--- a/libxml2-python/.md5sum
+++ b/libxml2-python/.md5sum
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-f5806f5059ef7bd4d3fcf36cf116d1ef  libxml2-2.6.27.tar.gz
+ddf3c369964980a238fad0b6ad40532c  libxml2-2.6.28.tar.gz
 b46c239bb79b1d29fea848019a21ba75  libxml2-python-config.patch
diff --git a/libxml2-python/Pkgfile b/libxml2-python/Pkgfile
index 51d4aeffe..ec3e1b090 100644
--- a/libxml2-python/Pkgfile
+++ b/libxml2-python/Pkgfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # Depends on:  python, libxml2
 
 name=libxml2-python
-version=2.6.27
+version=2.6.28
 release=1
 source=(ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-$version.tar.gz \
         $name-config.patch)